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“Phase transitions” is a category for books that explore how systems undergo abrupt, qualitative changes when conditions cross critical thresholds. It spans foundational physics and chemistry (states of matter, symmetry breaking, order parameters, critical phenomena, scaling, and universality), classic models like the Ising model and percolation, and both equilibrium and nonequilibrium transitions (nucleation, glassiness, pattern formation). The category also includes materials-focused topics such as superconductivity, magnetism, liquid crystals, and soft matter, alongside interdisciplinary applications to biology, neuroscience, ecology, climate tipping points, networks, and social or economic systems where collective behavior emerges. Readers will find textbooks, research monographs, and popular science titles, as well as methodological works covering theory, experiments, and computation (e.g., renormalization group, Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics). Overall, these books illuminate how complex order arises, changes, and organizes across nature and technology.

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